Balasore:
A pair in Odisha’s Balasore district allegedly offered their new child boy to a childless couple in neighbouring Mayurbhanj district, police mentioned on Sunday.
The matter got here to gentle when locals couldn’t discover the nine-day-old child within the house of Dharmu Behera and his spouse Shantilata in Hadamouda village below the Basta Police Station limits, an officer mentioned.
On December 19, Shantilata gave start to a child boy at Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical School and Hospital at Baripada and he or she was discharged three days later.
When villagers didn’t discover the new child of their house, they suspected that the couple offered the newborn by means of a intermediary as a result of “poverty”, the officer mentioned.
Primarily based on a criticism, a joint investigation was initiated by the police and the Little one Welfare Committee, Mayurbhanj.
The child was rescued on Saturday from the possession of a childless couple in Manicha village below the Sainkola block in Mayurbhanj district, he mentioned.
Each Shantilata and the household from the place the newborn was rescued denied the allegation of any sale or buy of the new child.
Shantilata and Dharmu claimed to have donated the newborn to the childless couple.
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